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TAX AND SPEND:

California won't get it right. Pretending that taxes have zero consequences, California Democrats taxed internet businesses, and Amazon immediately cuts ties with 25,000 of them. This tax made everybody in California and everybody in the world poorer because we no longer have access to those products at our fingertips.

"California Retailers Association stated:  "We thank Governor Jerry Brown and the leaders in the California State Legislature who have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to California businesses by passing and signing e-fairness into law. Small and large businesses across the state have been held at a major disadvantage by the current law that out-of-state online companies like Amazon.com and Overstock.com have exploited for years. This has cost us jobs and revenues.""

Note the protectionist attitude behind the law. This shows that California is isolating itself from the rest of the country, supporting my prediction that California will split from the US as the country continues to decline.

Regarding the consequences of Obama's proposed private jet tax, George Will examines the cost of the luxury yacht tax from the 90s. Hint: it cost the government money and so would a tax on private jets.

Everybody is talking about cutting $2 trillion over ten years, but these aren't cuts at all. It's barely slowing the rate of spending growth. It's a scam.

Greek government passes austerity package, kicks can down the road, making its financial problems worse.

REGULATION:

In a grotesque example of how government corrupts everything and everybody it touches to point of making them indifferent to life and death, the body of a woman who drowned in a government pool wasn't noticed for two days by lifeguards or government inspectors despite the child she was watching telling lifeguards she went under and never came up. Events like this aren't isolated incidents. They're institutionalized because of the nature of government.

EDUCATION:

Government unhappy about college tuition increases, and they want colleges to explain. I'll explain. Government gives everybody student loans so more people are going to college. Colleges increased prices because government made the demand rise.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Thousands of global warming frauds being funded by billions of politically corrupted government dollars every year is not news, but one skeptic earning a million over ten years from oil companies is news.

WAR ON DRUGS:

One of those supposed small-government Republicans blocks marijuana decriminalization bill from vote because the FDA hasn't approved it for use. With supposed small government friends like that, who needs enemies?

POLICE STATE:

Federal and state wiretaps on the rise. On the one hand, this makes sense in the national security uber alles world we live in, but on the other hand, given how easy it is for government agents to implement wiretaps without court approval, I'm kind of surprised the official number hasn't dropped.

WAR:

Report claims real US casualties in the Gulf are 73,846, more than in Vietnam. The reason the claimed number is so low is an accounting gimmick. I'm skeptical of this explanation. If somebody dies while scuba-diving while on leave, it shouldn't be counted. I don't know if something like that was counted in Vietnam or not.

POLITICS:

Michele Bachmann criticized as hypocrite for taking public funds for her businesses. I don't agree. The government steals from us, so it's OK for us to take back whatever we can. The criticism I have of Bachmann is that she takes no principled stand against government theft. She theft is fine for some things but not for others. I think having been a lawyer for the IRS should be way more detrimental to her campaign.

Have you noticed how government goons are always giving other government goons medals?

Ron Paul has raised over $4 million this quarter. That's pretty good.

I often here about public debates. To the best of my recollection, I don't believe anybody has asked my input on any legislative or public debate. I hear about such things in the press all the time, but oddly enough, they never involve me. Don't get me wrong, I've had a couple phone calls asking if I approved or disapproved of something. They tend to hang up when I laugh. But debate about policy? Caring about my opinion? Policy debate seems to be just among ruling class members with the press providing the illusion that the people at large are involved.


Prosecutors and defense attorneys for DSK both have questions about his accuser:

"Strauss-Kahn may be freed from house arrest Friday after attorneys for both sides requested an unexpected late-morning hearing in State Supreme Court. Prosecutors are expected to tell the court that they have found information that raises questions about the chambermaid’s credibility, the person said.""Prosecutors, who had expressed confidence in their case and said they had physical evidence proving that Strauss-Kahn had sexual contact with the woman, now have serious doubts about what the chambermaid told them, according to the person familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to speak freely about the confidential matter."

Wow. I said all along that this was either a battle between ruling class actors or an attack by a non-ruling class loser. If she was acting alone, she's going to be buried.


Texas voters would vote for any other Republican over Obama except Rick Perry. These are the kind of polls that have kept Perry out of the race.

Is Palin running? Contrary to what this guy predicts, no.

One more prediction: can politics become any more stupid? Yes. No matter how bad things are, they can always become worse. And in this environment, they will. Let's suppose you hired two workers to improve your health every couple of years. But instead of improving your health each year, the two workers beat you about the head and shoulders with clubs, robbed you and berated you for being stupid, all the while pointing fingers at each other over their bad behavior. Do you think there's any reason to believe you will reject both this coming electing? Not a chance.


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